Geography
This mountain range surrounds Machu Picchu.
What are the Andes?
This Yale professor rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
Who is Hiram Bingham?
This animal symbolized the underworld.
What is the snake?
The Inca used this instead of mortar between stones.
What are precisely cut stones and geometry?
This area provides a dramatic overview of the entire complex.
What is the Funerary Rock Hut?
Machu Picchu sits approximately this many feet above sea level.
What is 7,000 feet?
The civilization that built Machu Picchu.
Who were the Inca?
This animal symbolized human life.
What is the jaguar?
This temple is famous for its three trapezoidal windows.
What is the Temple of Three Windows?
This cave-like area beneath the Temple of the Sun contains ceremonial niches.
What is the Royal Tomb?
This valley lies thousands of feet below the religious area of Machu Picchu.
What is the Urubamba Valley?
The Inca left none of these records, making Machu Picchu's purpose difficult to determine.
What are written records?
This bird symbolized the celestial plane of the gods.
What is the condor?
This structure demonstrates some of the finest Inca stonemasonry.
What is the Principal Temple?
Sixteen of these are linked by one aqueduct system.
What are ceremonial baths?
Machu Picchu is hidden between these two types of landforms.
What are Andean peaks?
Historians believe this group may have made up most of Machu Picchu's population.
Who were high priests and chosen women?
The Inca considered this natural force their supreme god.
What is the sun?
The room beneath the Principal Temple used for religious objects.
What is the Sacristy?
This sacred carved pillar was used to predict solstices.
What is Intiwatana?
This nearby peak, whose name means "little peak," can be climbed for panoramic views.
What is Huayna Picchu?
The true purpose of Machu Picchu has never been conclusively determined; therefore it remains this.
What is a mystery?
During the winter solstice, the high priest symbolically caught this using a golden disc.
What is the sun?
The two stones flanking the Sacristy doorway each contain more than this many angles.
What is 30?
This temple resembles a giant bird with outspread wings.
What is the Temple of the Condor?